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Spenders Appeal to Human Nature

State reforms won’t change the human desire for more “free money.”

February 9, 2015

Regarding Steve Moore’s “The Tax-Cutting Boon Sweeping the States” (op-ed, Jan. 30): These state reforms won’t change the human desire for more “free money.” The sugar daddy of Uncle Sam will continue to step to the fore to satisfy these human and political behaviors, the states’ representatives in Congress battling for their slice of the bacon to bring home, tax and spending reform ideology be damned.

What’s to be done? Federal control of the U.S. budget also leaks into federal control of state budgets through block...